Joan Bennett Kennedy, the former wife of the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, died Wednesday morning in her sleep at her home in Boston, according to her family. She was 89 years old. The ...

Ted Kennedy and his first wife, Joan Kennedy, welcomed three children together before their split. The pair met in 1957 and were married for 22 years before they went their separate ways in 1978 and ...

In past interviews with PEOPLE, Joan opened up about not fitting in with the famous family and struggling to find her place in the Camelot era For a time, Joan muted her sorrows with alcohol, but ...

The wife of Senator Edward Kennedy for a quarter of a century, she both basked and struggled in the reflected glare of a political family always in the spotlight. By Katharine Q. Seelye Joan Kennedy, ...

BOSTON (AP) — Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a troubled marriage marked by family tragedies, her husband’s infidelities and her own decades-long struggles with ...

BOSTON (AP) — Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a long and troubled marriage marked by family tragedies, her husband’s infidelities and her own struggles with ...

Joan B. Kennedy, the first wife of late Senator Ted Kennedy, died on Wednesday after living a quintessentially-Kennedy rollercoaster life that saw extreme highs and depressing lows in both her ...

Dozens of members of the Kennedy family gathered in Boston on Wednesday to mourn the death of Joan Bennett Kennedy at a Catholic Mass at St. Anthony’s Shrine. The first wife of the late U.S. Sen. Ted ...

Joan never remarried after divorcing Ted in 1983 and maintained a relatively low profile in recent years Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Michael Ochs ...

Both of Ted and Joan Kennedy's sons have held roles in public office Ted Kennedy and his first wife, Joan Kennedy, welcomed three children together before their split Their daughter Kara died in 2011, ...